How Damien Conquered His Demons

Damien Dempsey adds second Vicar Street date

Damien Dempsey & David McSavage co-headline at Cork mini-fest

If it’s a mini music and arts festival you’re after, look no further than the Live At The Castle weekender taking place from December 5-7 in the Castle Glanmire which is just a short hop from Cork City.

Damien Dempsey among Doolin Folk Festival headliners

The Story of Damo: Hot Press meets Damien Dempsey

Spiritual offspring of Bob Marley and James Connolly, Damien Dempsey's fanbase includes Morrissey, Glen Hansard and Bruce Springsteen. As his first 'Best Of' Collection drops, the Donaghmede troubadour talks about popping up in Moz's Autobiography, hanging with Bruce and his struggles with writer's block

Irish musicians to star in Cardboard Gangsters

Damien Demsey

Dempsey's Den

The real voice of Ireland is back. After over four years of seeing the world and grappling with a ‘dark’ bout of creative uncertainty, Damien Dempsey returns to soothe the soul of a depressed nation...

Damien Dempsey to play acoustic set in Hot Press Chatroom

Your Pretty Smile

Blame it on the sunshine, but Damo seems to have been afflicted with the Irish summertime weakness for lightweight reggae. While there’s certainly always been that element to his music, and with considerable success, this is not one of his bigger statements.

Running On Dempsey

To Hell Or Barbados

There’s nobody else quite like Damien Dempsey. His vocal style is very much an acquired taste. It takes a few listens before you start liking it, but after a while and you wonder where he’s been all your life.

Damien Dempsey confirms two Dublin dates

Hold Me

Damo wants to be held in the third single from his number one Shots album. I say do what the man says; he’s massive. Certainly worth a listen for evidence of Dempsey’s more pared-down songwriting skills which strike an appropriately romantic chord.

Kinnity Castle to host one-day music festival

The Boy From Donaghmede Takes On The World

Damien Dempsey has battled his way centre stage, winning the support of luminaries as diverse as Morrissey, Robert Plant, Sinéad O'Connor, Larry Mullen and Brian Eno along the way. Now with the release of his third album Shots, he is poised to make a major breakthrough. Interview by Tanya Sweeney. Photos by Cathal Dawson.

Shots

Your writer is just as fond of the throwaway, the frivolous and the ephemeral as the next person, but it takes someone as integral as Damien Dempsey – back, here, with his third studio album ­– to remind you how empty, or, alternatively, full of shit most music is. That’s not a negative statement, just a true one.

Damien Dempsey makes his ma proud at Vicar St.

The Celtic warrior

From strange days coming second in a yoghurt-sponsored competition and playing awful gigs sandwiched between boy bands, Damien Dempsey, with a little help from Shane, Sinéad and Christy, has survived and thrived. Eamon Sweeney meets a rap balladeer with a hit album, a social conscience and more than a few stories to tell.

Daybreaker!

They Don't Teach This Shit In School

Damien Dempsey is a soul singer in the truest sense of the word. OK so he's no Al Green, but the 23-year-old from Donaghmede is incapable of being anything other than honest and giving anything less than 100% every time he opens his mouth to sing.